CSUN 2011 schedule
Wednesday 16th March 2011
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Video Accessibility in User Agents
by John Foliot, Jim Allen and Jeanne Spellman
Location: Randle A
Video and player accessibility is changing rapidly. Standards are in flux and hotly debated. Learn the latest issues in accessible video and user agents.
Jim Allan
Texas School for the BlindJohn Foliot
Stanford UniversityJeanne Spellman
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PDF Portfolios: Accessible Interactive Collections of Documents and Multimedia Files
by Jennison Asuncion and Andres Gonzalez
PDF portfolios are collections of documents and multimedia files packaged as a single PDF. Latest Adobe Acrobat makes portfolios more accessible to assistive
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Answering Visual Questions with oMoby and VizWiz
by Jeffrey P. Bigham and Pierre Garrigues
This presentation will overview the VizWiz and oMoby accessible mobile applications that use human-powered and automatic approaches to enable blind people
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Accessibility Challenges of HTML5
by ted_drake
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Dynamic Keyboard Generation for Single Switch Users
by ted_drake
The Yahoo! Prototype Team and Accessibility Lab have created an onscreen keyboard tool that significantly enhances the browsing experience for single switch users. The keyboard dynamically creates a series of hotlinks for web pages. We'll be demonstrating this tool and describing how and why it was developed.
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Building IT Accessibility Awareness and Community Using the Barcamp/Unconference Format
by Jennison Asuncion, patrick timony and John F Croston III
Presenters will: describe the BarCamp/unconference format, provide first-hand knowledge and experience holding accessibility focused events using this approach,
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Building IT Accessibility Awareness and Community Using the Barcamp/Unconference Format
Presenters will: describe the BarCamp/unconference format, provide first-hand knowledge and experience holding accessibility focused events using this approach,
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From Procedure to Policy: Organizing College AT in a Chaotic World
by James Bailey
Many college AT programs have grown spontaneously and reactively. This presentation explains how to organize a uniform policy from disconnected and seemingly unrelated AT services.
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Innovations in Accessibility: Designing for Digital Outcasts
by Kel Smith
The term "digital outcasts" describes users with disabilities left behind as technology advances. This presentation will explore barrier-free emerging technologies
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How to Eat an Elephant: Tackling Web Accessibility in a Large Corporation
by Lisa Barnett, Wes Dillon, Preety Kumar, Sharron Rush and Elle Waters
Humana's Accessibility team will relay the challenges they faced instituting web accessibility across a Fortune 100 company. The team will share successes
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CSUN, Accessibility, and Drupal
by Joseph Karr O'Connor, Pratik Patel and Kimon Rethis
How California State University, Northridge, is implementing Drupal, the Web Content Management System, with help from the greater Drupal accessibility
community.
Thursday 17th March 2011
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Advice from the field: processes that work to ensure PDF accessibility
PDF supports accessibility, but why aren’t more files accessible? The answer lies in an optimized conversion process. Learn how to ensure the best results.
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HTML 5 Accessibility
by John Foliot, Steve Faulkner, Richard Schwerdtfeger and Cynthia Shelly
Location: America's Cup D
HTML 5 is becoming an application convergence platform. A panel of accessibility experts, working on HTML 5, will discuss the state of HTML 5 accessibility.
Richard Schwerdtfeger
IBMSteve Faulkner
TPGJohn Foliot
Stanford UniversityCynthia Shelly
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The New AAC: Cheap and Disruptive?
by Joseph Karr O'Connor and Glenda Watson Hyatt
Two AAC case studies contrast and compare the use of cheap tools, and expensive tools, and why there are uses for both.
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Do We Need to Change the Web Accessibility Game Plan?
by John Foliot, Jennison Asuncion, Jared Smith and Sandi Wassmer
This panel will provide a discussion of current web accessibility efforts, whether they are effective or not, and how they can be improved.
Friday 18th March 2011
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How to control your finances with accessible tools on Yahoo! Finance
by ted_drake and Dirk Ginader
Yahoo! Finance, the largest financial site, features accessible tools to control your finances. Learn how to use these tools and what makes them accessible.
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Introducing DISTCHA - Yet Another Attempt at Killing CAPTCHA
DISTCHA: an attempt to kill CAPTCHA
Using CAPTCHAs has always been difficult, if not impossible. What if there was a truly secure, accessible, device-independent solution to replace them?
